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Foreign exchange
Korean won to stay weaker than profitable levels – poll
The South Korean won was expected to stay weaker than levels for corporate profits this year as the local currency was likely to stay under pressure...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korean shipbuilders outpace Chinese in LNG carrier orders
South Korea’s three biggest shipbuilders lost their world’s No. 1 title in ship orders for the second consecutive year but still proved ...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Medicox boosts unit for oral insulin, medical cannabis
South Korea's Medicox Co. on Wednesday said it will raise 40 billion won ($32 million) to boost its unit for oral insulin and cannabidiol (CBD).The ...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
KT taps current CEO Ku as sole candidate for next chief
South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. has named current chief executive Ku Hyeon-mo the sole candidate for its next CEO during a board meeting ...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek to unveil precision smartphone camera module
South Korea's LG Innotek said on Thursday it will unveil its high-magnification optical camera module with continuous zoom next month at CES 2023, t...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Commercial building transactions plummet to 2008 financial crisis level
In October, commercial building sales in Seoul plunged to the level of the 2008 global financial crisis.According to an analysis of actual transacti...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Hanwha Hotels&Resorts signs MOU with Mohegan Inspire
Hanwha Hotels & Resorts Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed with Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort a memorandum of understanding (MOU) fo...
Dec 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor's compact SUV Kona gets bigger
Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday unveiled the new design of its compact SUV the new "all-new Kona."The all-new Kona is a second-generation model being i...
Dec 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus secures compliance management system certification
LG Uplus Corp. announced on Sunday it has obtained ISO 37301 certification for its compliance management system, marking a first among the three Sou...
Dec 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
S.Korea's Bespin Global, Daewoo E&C sign smart city deal with Aussie company
South Korea's cloud management company Bespin Global on Wednesday said its subsidiary Bespin Global Vietnam formed a strategic partnership with Daew...
Dec 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
80% of Korea's data centers to use homegrown AI semiconductors by 2030
South Korea by 2030 will upgrade its level of domestic artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors to the world's best by using the nation's high-pe...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
PCL’s diagnostic kit measures concentration of COVID-19 antibodies
PCL Inc., a South Korean in vitro diagnostics device maker, plans to bring two test kits – one that simultaneously detects COVID-19 and influenza infe...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
LIG Nex1, KAIST, HHI sign MOU for unmanned marine system partnership
South Korea's defense contractor LIG Nex1 Co. took part in the "2022 Yi Sun-sin Defense Industry Exhibition" held at the Jinhae Naval Academy on Wed...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
LG Innotek unveils plastic-glass lenses for self-driving car camera modules
LG Innotek, the electrical component unit of South Korea's LG Group, said on Wednesday that it has developed two types of high-performance hybrid le...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares
A number of private equity giants in South Korea and beyond are bidding for shares worth up to 1 trillion won ($758.2 million) in KT Cloud, a subsid...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
LS Mtron supplys tractors to world's No. 2 agricultural machinery firm
LS Mtron, the industrial machinery and core component arm of Korea's LS Group, on Monday said it concluded a contract worth 500 billion won ($387.4 ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Inc. bulks up green investments to achieve net zero by 2035
SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is taking preemptive steps to expand its eco-friendly busin...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On, EcoPro, China’s GEM to build battery materials plant in Indonesia
SK On Co., a South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, has joined forces with two energy materials companies to build a nickel intermediate ...
Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung's chipmaking unit raises initial base salary to match SK Hynix's
Samsung Electronics Co.'s device solutions (DS) division, which manufactures semiconductors and displays, has raised its initial annual base salary ...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean exporters suffer FX derivate losses on weak won
More South Korean exporters suffered massive losses from foreign exchange derivatives on a weaker won, failing to benefit from the unit’s depr...
Nov 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT unveils AI strategy, including hyperscale AI commercialization
South Korea’s second-largest wireless carrier KT Corp. unveiled a set of steps it will take to commercialize the internally developed Hypersca...
Nov 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Galaxy Watches gauge body indicators at level of specialized medical devices
The Galaxy Watch series of Samsung Electronics can gauge major indicators of human health with similar accuracy as that of professional medical devi...
Nov 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Galaxy S22 smartphone named to Time's 'Best Inventions of 2022'
The smartphone Galaxy S22 Ultra is one of three products by Samsung Electronics included on a list of this year's best inventions by the American ma...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharma's epilepsy treatment posts impressive growth in US
South Korean SK Biopharmaceuticals' epilepsy treatment Cenobamate has seen rapid growth on the US market.The company on Thursday said the medic...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
North Korea Barrages south with missiles; South Korea swiftly responds
SEOUL—North Korea unleashed its biggest barrage in years, firing nearly two dozen missiles, including one that flew south of its disputed mari...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Machine vision technology for faster and more accurate detection of flaws
iCore is a component and module maker in the machine vision industry. It develops technology and manufactures products for imaging-based automatic ins...
Nov 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix eyes DDR5 dominance with industry’s fastest chip modules
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is aiming to secure market dominance for a next-generation DRAM chip called DDR5 b...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Carlyle, GS Group to buy Korean dental scanner maker
US private equity giant The Carlyle Group and South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate GS Group will acquire Medit Corp., the world’s third-...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
OCI to invest $40 million to expand US solar module production facilities
OCI Co., a leading South Korean solar power cell manufacturer, said on Monday it will invest $40 million to expand the solar cell module production ...
Oct 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia to reflect $2 bn quality costs in Q3 earnings
Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp., South Korea’s top two automakers, plan to reflect 2.9 trillion won ($2 billion) more in quality...
Oct 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 3 Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota Research team up for humanoid robots
- 4 S.Korea’s next AI unicorns stood out at KPAS 2024
- 5 HD Hyundai to show unmanned construction equipment tech